Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Palers' Special Edition Tee-Shirt

'Thoroughly impressive'

No more shirt-orders now, thanks. This was a special offer for the 'Beyond the Pale' Procol celebrations in Croydon, May 2002.

Beyond the Pale has designed a Special-Edition Tee-Shirt for Croydon 2002, for fans to wear to the Procol Concert and/or at the Champagne Reception immediately afterwards – and of course, in years to come, as a souvenir of a great weekend of music and camaraderie. The design incorporates a scan (thanks, Yan!) of the first-ever review of A Whiter Shade of Pale, a glowing and prophetic assessment from the New Musical Express of 13 May 1967 (read it here).

The picture shows Gary not-quite wearing his 'One More Toast' sample tee-shirt, which is tucked inside his jacket. At the champagne reception – 35 years to the day since AWSoP first topped the charts – BtP will be raffling a signed shirt, with the signatures of all five members of Procol Harum … see illustration below.

We're planning a limited edition of 35 white and 35 black tee-shirts: only 70 shirts in all. Since there will be 150 people at the 'One More Toast' reception, you may wish to reserve a shirt now, and pay for it when you get to Croydon. Pre-ordered shirts will be offered at 9 pounds; they'll be 10 pounds if not pre-ordered.

The shirts will be manufactured (by our good friends at Beast in Bristol) in the next few days; in order to help us to supply the sizes people actually want, please let us know your requirement straight away. If you're coming to Croydon, click here to send us your tee-shirt reservation.

There are two colours of shirts, white (printed in red and navy-blue) and a very groovy black (printed in red and white).